Please pardon my radio silence this past week. These past seven days have been, in a word, crazy.

Actually, I'm going to go ahead and use two words: crazy wonderful.

There were visitors, strolls through the old Luxembourg fortress, pretzel M&Ms all the way from the U.S. (thanks Dad!), an academic tour to Madrid, galleries filled with Goya and Velazquez, Spanish guitar and roman ruins.

These kinds of weeks make me feel a lot like this:

Now it's back to the real world (where neglected laundry needs to get done), but I know that February still has a few fun things up its sleeves. And of course, I still have a whole bag of pretzel M&Ms to keep me company (but not for long...)